HONG KONG — A Hong Kong tycoon has placed the biggest ever order for Rolls-Royce cars, agreeing to buy 30 Phantoms to chauffeur guests at a luxury resort he’s building in the global gambling capital of Macau.
Suspended Family Court Judge Steven Jones pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in a $2.6 million investment scheme. Jones agreed to surrender his law license to the State Bar of Nevada and resign from the bench.
BOSTON — Wynn Resorts and Massachusetts gambling regulators on Wednesday finalized a license for a proposed $1.6 billion resort casino across from Boston, but the casino company says it’s not yet prepared to campaign against a looming threat: November’s ballot question to repeal the state’s casino law.
In April, a car collided with one of rancher Cliven Bundy’s cows on Interstate 15 near his Bunkerville ranch, killing the animal and sending the vehicle careening down an embankment. A Las Vegas woman injured in the crash is suing Bundy.
A small Henderson casino has been robbed twice this summer, and investigators there note a man involved in each holdup was wearing a fedora. And it could have been the same guy, Henderson police said.
A west Las Vegas Valley cat hoarder was removed from her home last week, six weeks after the Southern Nevada Health District declared her house an “unacceptable health risk” to its occupants.
The chief of a newly formed police department in the tiny eastern Utah town of Myton is accused of stalking three women.
A juvenile faces a murder charge as an adult in a North Las Vegas shooting that happened two weeks ago, police say.
Big Elvis has been entertaining at Harrah’s for years. When he sings, grown men break into broad grins, women who saw the king The King perform when they were teens weep and tourists who wandered in to laugh stand gape-jawed.
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The chief inspector for the Department of Veterans Affairs said Wednesday he has no timeline to complete investigations of scheduling practices at the North Las Vegas VA hospital and dozens of others nationwide.
Colin Kaepernick said Wednesday he has been fined more than $11,000 by the NFL and he will appeal the penalty for what an official called “inappropriate language” by the 49ers quarterback following a fourth-quarter interception in Sunday’s 28-20 loss to the Bears.
A new Gallup poll finds that just 40 percent of Americans trust the mainstream media, although some reporting seeing an increasing conservative bias therein.
Vice President Joe Biden apologized on Wednesday for referring to people who squeeze U.S. military personnel serving overseas on loans and other financial issues as “Shylocks.”
A Florida man was indicted Wednesday on sexual assault charges in connection with attacking another man in a Strip bathroom.
Bureau of Land Management wildfire managers Wednesday raised a red flag about the hazard of aerial drones flown in areas where firefighters are at work.
MASHANTUCKET, Conn. — The chief executive officer of the Foxwoods Resort Casino is stepping down at the end of the next month.
Major League Baseball suspended umpire Joe West for one game without pay on Wednesday for grabbing the jersey of Philadelphia Phillies closer Jonathan Papelbon.
CARSON CITY — Nevada Treasurer Kate Marshall announced Wednesday that her office has recovered nearly all of the state’s $50 million investment that was put at risk by the bankruptcy of the Lehman Bros. investment bank in the Wall Street crash of 2008.
A skunk with a beer can stuck on its head had to be rescued near a fraternity house in southwestern Ohio.
The series has the name recognition, history and premise to peak curiosity, and “if that gets people to watch, I’ll take it,” the 36-year-old actor said in a recent interview.
People lined up in bumper-to-bumper traffic and scooped sand into trash and canvas tote bags Wednesday as rain from a weakened Pacific storm began to fall on Arizona.
PHOENIX — A cold case homicide has been solved after a man, apparently racked with guilt, drove across the country to confess killing an Arizona woman in Bullhead City with a flashlight more than 15 years ago.
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President Barack Obama, trying to reassure war-weary Americans, vowed on Wednesday the United States will not fight another ground war in Iraq but his spokesman said some military advisers could end up in front-line positions against Islamic State.
Police in Flint, Michigan, say a woman gave birth after she and her family captured a purse snatcher in a grocery store parking lot.
Inaugural Big Blues Bender music festival features more than two dozen acts.
LAKE MEAD — Anglers who have been catching stripers are reporting that the fish have bellies full of shad, which may explain the sluggish action. For those using lures, success has been found with silver Kastmasters and Zara Spooks. Crawdad imitations are taking black bass in depths up to 40 feet.
But Fielder still picks four games: Las Vegas at Palo Verde, Mojave at Sierra Vista, Foothill at Canyon Springs, and Santa Margarita (Calif.) at Bishop Gorman.
Jacksonville, Fla., firefighters flying to a bachelor party in Las Vegas helped save a man who fell seriously ill on their flight.